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BADGE.

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UNITE STATES JAMES R. LEE, OE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BADGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,793, dated January 30, 1894.

Application filed August 19, l893` Serial No. 483,519.

To @ZZ whom, if may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES R. LEE, of Baltimore, in the State-of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badges, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to badges for societies and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide a badge having an improved means for applying an emblem to the badge to the end that the emblem may be displayed to better advantage than at present.

The invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter particularly described and defined in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face'view of a badge having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a cross section on' line 2-2, Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a broken horizontal section on a large scale.

Various methods have been employed for applying emblems to badges, the desideratum being to display the emblem to the best advantage, and by my improvement I provide an improved foundation, capable of receiving any suitable symbol or emblem, and which may be readily and securely affixed to the badge, and by means of which the emblem is displayed with good effect.

The badge .A consisting of a ribbon of any desired fabric and shape may be suspended from any desired form of head B, the latter having the usual means for attaching it to the clothing of the wearer.

To the face ofthe badge is secured my improved foundation C, bearing any desired emblem, symbol or inscription, an outline of a section of the globe being indicated in the drawings for the purposes of illustration. This improved foundation is of circular form and convexed on its face, so as to present a pronounced projection beyond the face of the badge A, when viewed in any direction. In manufacturing the foundation a convexed disk a is provided which forms a backing for the paper, silk or other fabric b, on which the o desired emblem is produced by printing or (No specimens otherwise, the convexed backing serving to give its own conformation to the paper or silk l). Over the latter there is placed a thin sheet c of transparent celluloid, which also partakes of the formation of the convexed backing a. A proper flat surface d is provided for the foundation by the employment of a plate e on which the circular edge of the conveXed disk a, rests, at the edge e of said plate, and the latter, also, is offset to project the surface d beyond the edge eso that the latter will accommodate a clamping ring f, by means of which the foundation is completed. Further the extreme edge e2 of the disk e is upturned, as shown, and serves to better maintain the disk a in position. The ring f, it will be seen, engages at the back the edge e2 of plate e and at its front it engages the edges of the celluloid c, the paper or silk b and their backing a, and serves to firmly bind the whole together,

the clamping ring at the back lying substan tially in the plane of the surface d of the foundation. This arrangement enables the latter broad surface to be utilized in effecting the application of the fabric, a suitable adhesive substance being preferably employed for the purpose. By this plano-convex construc- .tion of the formation the emblem is displayed on the ribbon to better advantage than those produced directly on the ribbon, projected as it is in curved lines, and the foundation, lying flat on the ribbon,presents a neater and more artistic appearance than devices having visible fasteners that make prominent their separate and distinct natures.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The herein described improved badge, the same consisting of a suitably shaped ribbon having a separate emblem-bearing fabric applied thereto through the medium of a foundation consisting of a convex disk, forming a backing for the emblem-bearing fabric, a flat plate forming the back surface of the foundation, which surface is secured to the ribbon, said plate having an offset edge, and a ring engaging the odset edge of the plate and lying substantially in the plane of the fiat surface of the latter, the emblem-bearing fabric hav- IOO ing a covering of transparent celluloid, and the clamping ring engaging the latter and serving to bind the same and the fabric and its backing to the flat plate, substantially as described.

E3. The herein described improved badge, the same consisting of a suitable ribbon, and a separate emblem-bearing fabric secured thereto through the medium of a foundation of plano-convex conformation; to Which said fabric is secured, the foundation being united to the ribbon and maintaining the emblem bearing fabric in convex form, substantially as described.

3. The herein described improved badge, the same consisting of a suitably shaped ribbon having a separate emblem-bearing fabric applied to the ribbon through the medium of a foundation, the latter being secured at its back on the ribbon and having a convexed face rising from the ribbon, the said face forming a backing for the emble1n-bearing fabric and giving thereto its own convex conformation, substantially as described.

4. The herein described improved badge, the saine consisting of a suitably shaped ribbon having a separate emblem-bearing fabric applied to and supported from the face of the ribbon through the medium of a foundation having a flat back contacting with and secured to the ribbon, and a convened face, said convexed face rising from the surface of the ribbon, and giving its own convex conformation to the emblem-bearing fabric, the latter being covered by a transparent sheet, and a clamping ring engaging the back surface of thefoundation and engaging theconvexed einblem-bearing fabric, and clamping the Whole together, substantially as described.

JAMES R. LEE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES J. FRANZ, LEWIS MINKs, Jr. 

